ICO Winter Meeting and Montgomery Lecture
15 November 2024
Albert Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
Winter Meeting "What Might the Future of Practice Look Like?
Time: 2.00pm - 5.30pm
The theme of discussion at the winter meeting, "What Might the Future of Practice Look Like?" will examine the changing landscape of public and private practice in Ireland and how that may continue to evolve over the coming years.
The presenters and panelists will share their impressions of the changing ownership and funding structures, and how the development of medicine as a business with the entrance of investment capital impacts the delivery of care.
Call for Abstracts:
Now closed. (Monday, 21st October 2024).
Programme:
2.00pm Welcome
Mr John Doris, President, Irish College of Ophthalmologists
2.05pm Short Presentations
Co-Chairs: Professor Conor Murphy, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin and Ms Janice Brady, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, University Hospital Waterford
3.30pm Refreshments
4.00pm What Might the Future of Practice Look Like?
Chair & Moderator: Mr Richard Comer, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Bon Secours Hospital, Galway
Presenters:
Mr John Doris, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, University Hospital Waterford
Mr James O'Reilly, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, UPMC Aut Even Hospital, Kilkenny and Whitfield Hospital, Waterford
Dr Shane McKeogh, ICGP/HSE GP Integrated Care Lead for Adult Respiratory Disease; Principle GP, Solas Medical Centre, Dublin
Panel Discussion:
Mr Sean Gallagher, Entrepreneur; ICO Board Member
Mr Aidan O'Reilly, Interim Secretary General, Irish Hospital Consultant Association
Prof Robert Scott, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, St John and St Elizabeth Hospital, London
Presentation of John Blake Medal for Best Research Paper
Annual Montgomery Lecture 2024
5.30pm: Drinks & Canapes Reception
6.30pm: Lecture
'Traumateyesed: coping with major ocular injuries'
Professor Robert Scott MBBS, FRCS(Ed), FRCOphth, DM
Prof Robert Scott will deliver the Montgomery Lecture 2024 on Friday, November 15th in the Albert Hall, RCSI.
Professor Robert Scott is a Consultant Ophthalmologist who qualified from St Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1987, his eye specialist training was at Queens Medical Centre Nottingham and his retinal specialist and cataract specialist training was at Moorfields Eye Hospital London. He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1993, was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist in 1998 and awarded a postgraduate Doctorate of Medicine by the University of Nottingham for his research on eye immunology and wound healing.
Prof Scott is a former Royal Air Force Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (BMEC) and Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, sub-specialising in eye trauma, advanced cataract and vitreoretinal surgery.
He served as the Royal Air Force and Defence Medical Services Consultant Advisor for Ophthalmology for a decade and was appointed as the Defence Medical Services and Royal College of Ophthalmologists Professor of Ophthalmology in 2012 and honorary Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Birmingham in 2015.
In 2018 he founded ScottHealth Ltd to provide and develop modern ophthalmic treatments and is developing new treatments for scarring of the eye after retinal detachment surgery, keratoconus, new eye drops to treat age-related macular degeneration and certain eye and brain cancers.
Prof Scott holds clinics in London and Birmingham. In London, at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John's Wood and at Harley Street. In Birmingham, he practices at Edgbaston Eye Consultants Clinic at 22 George Road, Edgbaston, deep in the heart of the Edgbaston Medical Quarter.